Make a unique and original mini album! A triple folder mini album with a suitcase cover with enough space for all your photos and journaling! This class is for those of you who love making mini albums and are looking for the next new and exciting mini album design that no one else made. This class will teach you how to make an amazing mini album for your vacation, holiday or travel photos. In this class you will: Learn how the measure and cut the right size of chipboard and pages Find out how to make interactive folders See how to make unique interactive mechanisms like flaps and pockets Discover how to increase the space for more photos on a small mini album page Learn to make a suitcase shape folding cover Embellish the suitcase, mini album pages and give them a fun traveling look! This is a great class for beginners and advanced artists who want to learn …
Learn how to make an interactive Halloween mini album full of moving elements like flaps, pockets and inserts
How to make amazing interactive mini albums with thebasic elements of flaps and pockets and all the combinations you can create!
Find out how to make a creative one page wonder interactive mini album with pockets and flaps for extra room for photos
Instead of spending money buying a journal you can make one using paper and ribbon. This activity is a simple, fun activity to do with children or by yourself. Take a good amount of paper (20-30 pages, or more, depends how thick you want...
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My Creative Scrapbook design team member Kristin Greenwood is up today with a tutorial featuring our November Album Kit ! Here's Krist...
Learn how to make an interactive Halloween mini album full of moving elements like flaps, pockets and inserts
This gingham ruffle sleeve top is both trendy and classic, and also really easy to make! Learn how to make it with this step by step sewing tutorial.
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Scroll to bottom for measurements to make mini Exploding Book:) Making an exploding book is such an easy yet impressive project and can be made to…
With Valentine's Day coming up, I am always trying to think of unique DIYs to gift my partner. I found this rolodex second hand and instantly knew I could put my own spin on the classic photo album, different from the generic book we’ve all given in the past.
Neckline binding is my favourite neckline finish for knits. In today's Briar sewalong, we'll be showing you our method for creating a neckline binding.
Challenge your first grader by having her connect the dots from 1 to 50 to complete the picture of the friendly lion.
Hi everyone :-)Here is part 2 for basic scrapbooking and craft tutorial on how make hinges, spines and binding for mini albums, journals and photo albums for beginners .In this part I will show how to
OK, using a laptop at the cabin to write this. I hate laptops. They don't make craft blogging so easy to do but I will try my best :0P I have had a couple people email me this last week and ask that I get these instructions on the blog, so here you all go. Start with about 8 bags. If you are making the camp book, you can get away with 6, but I used 8 bags. I used my fabulous ATG tape gun to put these together, but any glue will do, even just a good old bottle of white school glue. I like to start with the back page. Grab your first paper bag and lay it down so the flappy bottom part flaps up. Take the second bag, fold up the flappy, and glue the flappy part to the back page like shown in the picture above. I line the folded edge of the two bags up and glue it down. To glue it down, I just run adhesive along the four sides of the flap, then press it into place. Press everything down and you are ready to make the bulk of the album. Take two paper bags. Lay them down so the flaps meet in the middle. Hold one side down and apply your adhesive to the four edges of the flap. Press the two flaps together to make one set of pages. Fold the two bags together so that the corners meet and then crease the folded flappy area flat. That is to keep the pages all uniform in the book. I made three sets of those pages for this album. Now, with all your inner pages made, you are ready to put it all together. Grab the back set of two again. Lay the three sets of double pages on top of the back piece. Notice that the pages are kinda fluffy. We will be folding the flap of the bottom piece to be the binding of the album. Run adhesive along the four sides of the flap as well as down the center of the flap. I figure out about how much extra room I want to leave for the binding by holding it up like this and marking where the pages come when they are not compressed. Fold the flap along that line and press the flap down so that the crease on that bottom page's flap lines up with the top page's edge. When in doubt, look at the pictures. This can be a little tricky to try and express with words...especially with as much bug spray as I have been inhaling. Did I mention that the mosquitoes are like birds up there, swarming the Alfred Hitchcock way! Now the top page should look something like this, with a flap across the top. The open end of the album will naturally open wider when just sitting there. as Now, all of those lunch bags will have a flappy part like this that is now secured down. Be sure and glue those down as well. You may have noticed that two sets of those inside page sets are not secured to the album. Rather than gluing those to the next set and losing page space I chose to use hemp rope to bind the whole thing together. I took these pictures in the middle of our encampment, so I didn't have my hemp, but this ribbon is probably easier to see anyway. In fact, I kinda like the ribbon! Open the book up to the middle set of pages, and run the ribbon across one side of the flappy part. Make sure you have a bit of a tail so you can tie the whole thing together in the end. Now, just pull the ribbon across the spine, then wrap it around the other side of the flappy thing belonging to the middle page set. The binding will look something like this. The top starts to look loopy. Keep wrapping the pages together around the binding until you have wrapped around both sides of all the flaps. Leave a 8-10" tail so you can wrap the spine of ribbons. It is nothing too gorgeous, but it works great. There you have it, my way of making a paper bag album. I hope this helps all of you making the Camp Smashbook. If you have any questions, please comment below or email me at [email protected] :0)
One of the best ways of preserving your family history and to make the most of your research is to make a family tree album that can help you preserve the information for future generations. Making a family tree album can also help to bring all the family stories and pictures together so that your
OK, using a laptop at the cabin to write this. I hate laptops. They don't make craft blogging so easy to do but I will try my best :0P I have had a couple people email me this last week and ask that I get these instructions on the blog, so here you all go. Start with about 8 bags. If you are making the camp book, you can get away with 6, but I used 8 bags. I used my fabulous ATG tape gun to put these together, but any glue will do, even just a good old bottle of white school glue. I like to start with the back page. Grab your first paper bag and lay it down so the flappy bottom part flaps up. Take the second bag, fold up the flappy, and glue the flappy part to the back page like shown in the picture above. I line the folded edge of the two bags up and glue it down. To glue it down, I just run adhesive along the four sides of the flap, then press it into place. Press everything down and you are ready to make the bulk of the album. Take two paper bags. Lay them down so the flaps meet in the middle. Hold one side down and apply your adhesive to the four edges of the flap. Press the two flaps together to make one set of pages. Fold the two bags together so that the corners meet and then crease the folded flappy area flat. That is to keep the pages all uniform in the book. I made three sets of those pages for this album. Now, with all your inner pages made, you are ready to put it all together. Grab the back set of two again. Lay the three sets of double pages on top of the back piece. Notice that the pages are kinda fluffy. We will be folding the flap of the bottom piece to be the binding of the album. Run adhesive along the four sides of the flap as well as down the center of the flap. I figure out about how much extra room I want to leave for the binding by holding it up like this and marking where the pages come when they are not compressed. Fold the flap along that line and press the flap down so that the crease on that bottom page's flap lines up with the top page's edge. When in doubt, look at the pictures. This can be a little tricky to try and express with words...especially with as much bug spray as I have been inhaling. Did I mention that the mosquitoes are like birds up there, swarming the Alfred Hitchcock way! Now the top page should look something like this, with a flap across the top. The open end of the album will naturally open wider when just sitting there. as Now, all of those lunch bags will have a flappy part like this that is now secured down. Be sure and glue those down as well. You may have noticed that two sets of those inside page sets are not secured to the album. Rather than gluing those to the next set and losing page space I chose to use hemp rope to bind the whole thing together. I took these pictures in the middle of our encampment, so I didn't have my hemp, but this ribbon is probably easier to see anyway. In fact, I kinda like the ribbon! Open the book up to the middle set of pages, and run the ribbon across one side of the flappy part. Make sure you have a bit of a tail so you can tie the whole thing together in the end. Now, just pull the ribbon across the spine, then wrap it around the other side of the flappy thing belonging to the middle page set. The binding will look something like this. The top starts to look loopy. Keep wrapping the pages together around the binding until you have wrapped around both sides of all the flaps. Leave a 8-10" tail so you can wrap the spine of ribbons. It is nothing too gorgeous, but it works great. There you have it, my way of making a paper bag album. I hope this helps all of you making the Camp Smashbook. If you have any questions, please comment below or email me at [email protected] :0)
How to make a one sheet wonder mini album! Make a complete mini album with cover from only one 12x12 sheet of cardstock
The best way to make a flap mini abum page to make your mini album much more fun and intereating and add extra space for photos and journaling
What to do with Momigami paper. Great question. The Momigami techniques make fun use of all types of paper and offers endless creations. Learn how to make this Momigami paper Matchbook/notebook.
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Post bound albums are great for scrapbooks, but sometimes I can't find one that matches the theme I'm interested in. I'll show you how to make your own album sized to fit your page protectors. First, measure your page protectors. The cover will be 0.25" larger on both sides than the page protector. My page protectors are about 6.25" x 7.25", so my cover will measure 6.5" x 7.5". My pencil drawings help me to visualize the project along the way. I usually exaggerate the difference between the height and width to make it easier to visualize the final orientation of the pieces. Cut two covers, and two spines (1" x 6.5") from a sturdy piece of bookboard or dense cardboard. After I've cut the first strip of board 6.5 inches wide, I use the finished piece to act as a guide for the rest of the cutting. This makes the pieces uniform, and saves a bit of time with lining the ruler up. I like to lay my pieces out at this point. Punch holes in one spine to correspond with the holes on your page protectors. My picture shows me checking my pencil marks before I punch the holes. In some of these photos, you will see that I use a pencil to mark things as I go along. The confusing thing about post post albums is that the spine will fold over and be on top of the cover when it's finished. Keeping track of the pieces is easier if you make notes to yourself in pencil. Use the first spine as a template to create holes in the second spine. Remember that the outsides of the spines will be touching when the book is assembled, so be sure to orient the spines with the tops matching and outsides touching. Cut paper to cover the outside of the book. I like to have 0.75" overlapping on each edge, so the height of my paper will be 1.5" taller than the height of the cover. In this case, I'm going to use two different papers on the cover, so I'm going to draw a line on the front where I want the first paper to end. Apply glue to the cover, spread with a brush, and place the paper on the cover. Apply glue to the raw edge of the board, and lay the second piece of paper on the spine edge. When cutting your pieces, make sure that there is at least 0.75" over on each edge. To place the spine, use an acrylic ruler to butt up against the cover. Apply glue to the spine, and butt up against the ruler. Make sure there is 3/8" between the spine and cover. This will allow for good folding when the book is finished. This assumes that your cover pieces are about 1/8" thick. The space between the spine and the cover should be a little more than twice the thickness of the board for this type of book. Punch holes in the red paper. If you don't do this now, you may lose your holes! I like to use an anywhere hole punch with a tapered end - my favorite is by Making Memories. This makes the holes a bit larger to accommodate my posts. This will take quite a few passes, so be patient! Cut the corners off the paper, leaving about 1/8" between the edge of the board and where you cut. Use a bone folder to crease along all edges and fold the paper up over the board. Need more details on how to cover book board? Check out my earlier tutorial (but ignore the part with the style stone!). I also do a practice folding with the spine to get it loosened up a bit. Cover the inside with a piece of paper. When laying the paper over the "gutter" between the spine and cover, use your thumb to gently press the paper into the gutter. This will help the cover fold nicely later. From the front side, punch holes with the anywhere hole punch through the inside paper. If this is too cumbersome, you can also use a regular hole-punch. With the scraps, create a card and step back to admire your work! This album is a friendship book for a friend who is leaving our community. I've made two similar books for two different friends. The pages in the book were created by our friends so that they have a memory of us when they move. Let your friends know how special they are by creating a gift for them. This one is definitely from the heart. All pictured paper and stamps from Club Scrap.
How To Make A Journal From Blank Cards This cute little junk journal is easy to make. All it takes is a few blank greeting cards. Here's how to make one of your very own. Gather Your Cards Gather some A2 Kraft Cards & Envelopes. You won't use the envelopes for this project, but save them for a future journal craft. Decide how big you want your journal to be. I used 8 cards for a total of 16 pages, including front & back covers. One More Card Now get one more card and cut it vertically into inch-long strips as shown. I like to use a trimmer for this, but you can use scissors, too. Hinges Fold each strip in half as pictured. A ruler can help with this to keep the fold straight. These strips will become your "hinges". Cut Off Hinge Ends Next, take one of your folded strips or "hinges" and cut off each end at an angle as pictured. Attach Cards Using Hinge Line up two cards folded ends touching. Apply craft glue to your hinge and glue it to one of the cards as pictured. Next, apply glue to the other side of the hinge and attach it to the other card. The hinge holds the cards together, kind of like a door hinge holds a door to a wall. Repeat this process for all of your cards until they form one large book. Don't worry about the hinges showing. Once you decorate your journal, you can cover them with papers. Done! Easy Peasy And you're finished! You have a blank card journal ready for your personal touch. Want to see how I decorated mine with a vintage "World Travel" theme? Click here. Click here to see how I decorated MY card journal.
Want to make your own gorgeous, crafty, hand-bound work of literary art? It's easy! Check out these free handmade book patterns.
